Rev. Michael Faulkner
A Harlem minister and one-time NY Jets football player plans to challenge 38-year Congressional Representative Charlie Rangel – as a Republican.
Rangel, who is politically weakened from a non-stop battering of scandals, faces strong primary challenges within his own party this year. But while running as a Republican in traditionally-Democrat-Party Harlem will be a tough sell for The Rev. Michel J. Faulkner, he says he is ready for the challenge.
Rev. Faulkner says he “was the smallest, the shortest, the slowest, the weakest,” when he showed up for tryouts with the NY Jets in 1980. “So I understand what it means to be a long shot.”
Following the successful playbook of newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, Rev. Faulkner plans to not run so much on his party but on issues such as “lower taxes, smaller government, less government intervention, empowering people to be the best that they can be and to reach for the stars,” he told FOX News.
Political odds-makers say that while there is an anti-incumbent fever in the air this year, and Rangel is certainly weakened by his scandals, he is not in the top teir of those likely to lose their seat.
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http://www.FaulknerforCongress.com. Thank you.
Where is Adam Clayton Powell IV? Yeah, I know he is shacked up somewhere in some motel with a bimbo but why is he not challenging that tub of lard , too?
Forget it….Charlie is a shoe-in for re-election because his constituents hate “The Man” just as much as he does.